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Do you have any other info/links on the problems associated with the Alcubierre?
by serfdomroad 14y ago
Do you have any other info/links on the problems associated with the Alcubierre?
- gliese1337 14y agoHere is a paper on the results of interactions with external matter en-route: http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5708 http://arxiv.org/abs/1202.5708 With a couple of popularizations: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/04/killer_warp_drive/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/04/killer_warp_drive/ http://www.universetoday.com/93882/warp-drives-may-come-with-a-killer-downside/ http://www.universetoday.com/93882/warp-drives-may-come-with... (Essentially, particles encountered en-route pile up near the boundary and are released in a large burst when you turn the thing off, which is potentially very bad for the local environment, of which you are a part.) And here's a paper on the horizon-like properties of the warp bubble boundary: http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~scilooe/srp_2003/sci_paper/phy/research_paper/pua_yeong_heng.pdf http://staff.science.nus.edu.sg/~scilooe/srp_2003/sci_paper/...
- ars 14y ago> on the problems associated with the Alcubierre? You mean aside from the fact that it doesn't exist? It's a mathematical solution to some equations - it's not an actual physical thing.